How to Cook Cheese and Vegetable Soup with Garlic bread
Serves: 6
Preparation time: 20 mins
Cooking time: 35 mins
Ingredients needed to make cheese and vegetable soup with garlic bread:
For the soup:
- ½ cup cabbage, shredded
- 1 onion, chopped
- 4 large tomatoes
- 1 medium tomato, chopped
- 225 gms baked beans
- 1/3 cup carrots, grated
- 1 bay leaf
- 2 tbsp oil
- ½ tsp sugar
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
- 4 peppercorns
- 2 cloves
- 2 cinnamon sticks
- 4 tbsp Parmesan cheese, grated
For the garlic bread:
- 4-5 garlic cloves
- 6 hot dog rolls
- 1 tbsp butter
Cooking instructions for cheese and vegetable soup with garlic bread:
- Chop the tomatoes into big chunks and add them to a stockpot.
- Pour in 5 cups of water on it and cook them over moderate heat until it soften.
- Transfer the cooked tomatoes into a blender to form a puree and strain it through a fine mesh.
- Squeeze the pulp to extract as much juice as possible and throw away the pulp.
- Drizzle oil in a pan to heat it over moderate flame and throw in the onions.
- Drop a bay leaf in it and stir-fry for about half a minute before stirring in the carrots as well as cabbage.
- Continue to saute the veggies for another minute while stirring often and pour in the strained tomato juice.
- Whisk the cornflour into small amount of cold water until it dissolves and stir it into the simmering soup.
- Tie rest of the spices in a muslin cloth and place it into the center of the soup.
- Sprinkle a dash of salt to season and bring the soup to boil.
- Continue to do so for about 20 minutes and stir in the chopped tomatoes and beans.
- Stir sugar into the soup until it dissolves and season with black pepper.
- Bring the soup back to boil and remove from heat.
- Do away with the spice bag and ladle it into soup bowls.
- Top it up with grated cheese and place it into an oven, set at grill mode, to cook it for about 5 minutes or until the cheese melts.
- Meanwhile, slice each bread roll horizontally into two equal halves.
- Crush the garlic cloves and whisk them into the softened butter.
- Spread this butter across the whiter side of the bread and arrange them on a greased baking sheet while the soup cooks in the oven.
- Once the soup is ready, remove from oven and place baking sheet with the rolls into the oven.
- Grill them at 400 degrees F until they turn crispy golden brown and serve hot with the steaming soup.
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